by Dr. Steve

New! Dr. Steve

Lectures, Classes, and Seminars offered by Dr. Steve Blake, ScD

Ten Ways To Beat The Cycle of Stress. A talk and slide show exploring what stress is and how to avoid it. Learn autogenic relaxation and other techniques to relax. These are practical techniques to reduce the impact of stress on your health and happiness.

Making the Journey to a Healthier Diet. We are all (hopefully) moving towards a healthier diet. You will learn how nutrition changes as we move away from a standard American diet and towards a plant-based diet. Sample diets will be displayed all the way from the Atkin’s diet to a raw food diet. The connection between disease and diets will be explored. With more information you can choose where to eat on the spectrum of diets.

Healthy Hearts: How NOT to get a Heart Attack by Steve Blake. This informative and fun slide show will expand your knowledge of food fats and blood cholesterol. Learn more about how to further reduce the risks of heart attacks, strokes, and blocked arteries. What about cholesterol and trans fats?  Learn how to unclog arteries through eating certain foods. Tips given for exercise and stress reduction.

Perfect Food, an exploration of what humans should eat. A talk and slide show exploring the perfect food for the human animal. Look at colorful photos of carnivores, omnivores, and vegetarian animals. Are we hunter-killer animals or are we plant-eaters?

Defeating Diabetes. Learn how to defeat diabetes with diet and lifestyle changes. See how a successful program in the Marshall Islands resulted in weight loss, freedom from insulin, and a reversal of diabetes. Find out how diabetes develops in stages. Understand how to rate food for blood sugar control. We will look at the effects of dietary fiber, types of food fat, and activity levels. The healthy effects of antioxidants in food and the unhealthy effects of food contaminants will be discussed. Results include weight loss, pain reduction, blood sugar reduction, and cholesterol reduction, and results start in two weeks! Diabetes is 90% preventable with these lifestyle changes, but only you control what goes into your mouth and your own activity levels.

Defensive Medicine. This informative slide show will show you how you can improve your resistance and prevent disease. A complete medical system includes prevention and natural remedies. Learn the four foundations of health. Find a deeper diagnosis that looks at the life habits that precede disease. Look beyond germs to discover the true causes of disease. See how to prevent health problems from infections to heart disease.

Nutrition for Menopause: Special needs for special women. Menopause can become the healthiest years of your life. This slide show and lecture will explore special nutritional needs to keep the right balance of health. Learn which foods keep your bones strong and healthy and which foods weaken bones. You can adjust your diet to minimize hot flashes. Discover ways to restore moisture to dry skin. What special supplements might be needed after age 50? Medicinal plants can help with hormone balance.

 What Are Omega 3s and Why Do I Need Them? Come to an informative presentation on Omega-3s and why you need them. Find out more about how dietary fats affect arthritis, heart disease, and skin. We will compare cooking oils to see which are healthy and which are deadly. Learn more about Omega-3s, Omega-6s, and Omega-9s. What is the real story about lowering blood cholesterol? You will also learn which oils have been ruined by greedy oil processors.

How to build your own solar and wind power systems, a half-day workshop from 10 am to 2 pm. This class will give you the knowledge to understand how solar and wind power systems can run your home. You will see how to set up the photovoltaic solar panels and wire them to produce power. A colorful slide show will survey the various types of wind turbines. We will look at the latest in charge controllers and inverters, the electronic boxes that control and convert the power. You will see how much power is available and learn how to adapt your home to become more energy efficient.

Vegetarian How To’s. How do we make the change if we decide to become more vegetarian? After a brief look at some of the reasons people become vegan or vegetarian, practical tips are given. We can’t just drop meat and dairy products. We need to substitute other replacement foods for satisfaction and nutrition.

Confronting the Causes of Disease: A Focus on Dietary Fats. Americans are facing epidemics of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis. Rather than spending trillions on treatments, why not address the causes of these modern scourges? This is an explanation of the roles of cholesterol, omega-3s, saturated fats, and trans fats in health and disease. The quantity and balance of dietary fats influence immune response and inflammation through eicosanoids and prostaglandins. The best oils are rich in vitamin E and contain the healthiest ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 essential fatty acids. Modern research is helping us find the best and worst dietary fats and oils.

32 Reasons to be a Vegan. This informative presentation will show you how you can improve your health and vitality.

How To Live To Be Healthy To 100. We all hope to live healthy lives until 100 or more. These easy, practical techniques will keep you healthy at any age. Learn the four foundations of health and explore healthy food choices for a long life. Learn about different types of fitness activities. Find out how to prepare longevity lunches. Learn which environmental toxins you can avoid. Low stress equals long life, find out how. You can diminish your chances of chronic disease with these well-proven techniques.

Figuring out Fats. I have just finished a book on dietary fats and blood fats. I will share some basic information on triglycerides, phospholipids, and cholesterol. Processing of oils results in some important changes in their nutritional value. The fragile essential fatty acids need more attention in any diet. How the long-chain omega 3's, DHA and EPA, are made in the body is important. Prostaglandins are made from essential fatty acids and control inflammation, blood pressure, and clotting. Excess dietary sugars and refined starches can be converted into excess blood and body fat. Since trans fats account for double the amount of other food additives together, they need more attention as well. We will look at the right amount of the right oils for optimum health.

Chocolate, Coffee and Antioxidants. This two-hour workshop will look at two of our favorite stimulating substances. Are these fun foods good for us? This is a colorful slide show showing how coffee beans and cacao pods are made into all the products we know and love! See how the raw plants are processed into coffee and chocolate bars. Learn more about how stimulants work. What about antioxidants in red wine and green tea? Find out more about polyphenols in coffee and chocolate. Discover some little-known plant stimulants.

Vitamins and Minerals in Food, in Supplements, and in Your Body. This comprehensive all-day seminar will educate you about each of the essential vitamins and minerals. Each necessary vitamin and mineral will be introduced and explained. Which foods are the most abundant in these micronutrients? We will look at vitamin and mineral forms in food and in supplements. The toxicity of vitamins will be discussed. Learn about the commonly deficient minerals, such as iron and iodine. Get to know how magnesium relaxes muscles. Discover which vitamins and minerals provide essential antioxidant protection. You will learn how these nutrients are absorbed from food and transported throughout the body. Find out how a diet rich in vitamins and minerals prevents disease. The information is based upon the teacher's recent textbook from McGraw-Hill—Vitamins and Minerals Demystified.

How to get all your nutrients from raw vegan food. Raw vegan diets abound in many nutrients, but there are a few dietary needs that are harder to fulfill. Steve will give some practical tips on which raw foods are nutrient powerhouses - on any type of diet. Steve is author of Vitamins and Minerals Demystified, McGraw-Hill, 2008, and he will be happy to answer your questions about nutrition. Come hear this exciting talk and learn how to take better care of yourselves and your loved ones!

Micronutrients in a Raw Food Diet, a talk by Steve Blake, author of Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (McGraw-Hill, 2008). We will think about each of the vitamins and minerals and how to get an abundance of each on a raw vegan diet.

Rejuvenation Secrets of European Spas. A colorful slideshow and lecture will show rejuvenation secrets from Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Romania. Discover how to look and feel younger. Learn the value of hydrotherapy and get tips for improving circulation. Rejuvenation recipes will be presented. Find out how to be safe when sun tanning. It takes only a few minutes a day to look and feel better. Much of this information can be found in the new book, Healing Medicine, by Steve Blake.

Vitamins and Minerals Demystified, a class by Dr. Steve Blake, author of Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (McGraw-Hill, 2008. This informative slide show will show you how vitamins and minerals in food can help you to lose weight and gain energy. We will look at osteoporosis, child nutritional needs, and special needs of the elderly.

Lower your Risk of Osteoporosis, Heart Disease, and Diabetes. Each of these common health problems will be connected with diet, fitness, and stress levels. How can vitamins and minerals help? Learn how to prevent and reverse these chronic problems.

Making Medicine Safer. Modern medicine saves lives, but it also can cause side effects. How can we avoid modern medicine with improved health? How can we navigate the dangers of a modern hospital? Which pain drugs are less dangerous?

Choosing the Perfect Herbs for You. How do you find the right herbs? You will be guided on how to select medicinal plant information. Learn about the medicinal properties of herbs. See how herbalists design formulas.

A Guide to Water Purification. Learn about the four types of water contaminants. Find out how each type is removed. How are salts removed from water? How are bacteria and parasites removed? Learn more about how to remove pesticides and chlorine byproducts from your drinking water.

How to Fit in Fitness in the New Year. Can’t get up early or work out after work? Fit it in. Here are some tips for fitting in slimming and toning. Types of exercise include aerobics, strengthening, range of motion, stretching, breathing exercises, inversion, walking, recreation, yoga, tai chi, rebounding. Keep it trauma-free by reducing impact and reducing muscle ripping.

Drug Safety and Corporate Science. Drugs can be the right choice, or there may be other, safer ways to deal with health problems. Learn more about how drugs are tested. How can you avoid drug side effects? How effective are FDA testing and monitoring of our drugs?

The True Causes of Disease. Disease is not always random and anonymous. It takes many years for the chronic diseases to develop. There is time to change the factors that cause disease. Even infectious disease can be reduced with stronger health.

How to Avoid Medical Problems While Traveling. Learn how to reduce your risk of colds and flu while traveling. What are intestinal parasites, and how can you avoid them? Find out about some natural energy boosters that don’t deplete your energy reserves.

[HOME] [ABOUT US] [THE DIET DOCTOR] [DIETARY FATS & OILS] [HERB DOCTORS] [HEALING MEDICINE] [VIDEOs of DR STEVE] [HERBAL E-BOOKS] [AYURVEDIC REMEDIES] [ESSENTIAL OILS] [PATENT REMEDIES] [LECTURE SCHEDULE] [SYSTEMS APPROACH] [HEALING YOU] [TRAVELING TIPS] [FOOD DANGER VIDEO] [FIT IN FITNESS] [LECTURE TOPICS] [LINKS]